Looks like every track WR has been done by Myostatin Deficient athletes such as UK sprinter Harry Aikines. Seems unfair.

Here are some pictures of Usain Bolt who doesn't powerlift and is bigger than any powerlifter or bodybuilder on this forum.

He also looks like he has the myostatin deficiency disease.

He goes light in the gym but looks like this and owns the WR in the 100 meter dash of 9.58.

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Working out with 135 it appears is the highest weight he goes to. Yet still grows bigger than everyone else due to the myostatin deficiency disease.

Had no clue that it was an actual disease causing him to be this fast.

you're assuming every black track athlete with big muscles has this deficiency just because of that one confirmed case?

But to cut to the chase, motivated as you seem to be by confirmation bias around the hypothesis that black people are better at explosive power/type 2 muscle events, etc etc, look at weightlifting world records. That counterexample could save you a lot of wasted time.

Funny thing about that study - the two "big muscles" haplogroups had the highest frequency in northeast Bantu areas, i.e. Kenya! Where's the 100m greats from there? All we get is skinny distance runners.

All the top sprinters are myostatin-deficient. Nothing more to see here, just move along.

So is that a level playing field then if you're not myostatin deficient?

Pharmacist wrote:

All the top sprinters are myostatin-deficient. Nothing more to see here, just move along.

Also i'm not trying to be sarcastic here with this post.

Just stating out some facts i found on the internet. Read those two articles above.

And yeah is this a level playing field if you're not myostatin deficient?

Since Aikines got tested to be myostatin deficient then is there some sort of test to test athletes to see whether or not they are myostatin deficient?

How hare-brained are you? If you're gonna start DNA-testing athletes for a cheating genotype, prove the advantage.

That begins with explaining why it clearly gives NO advantage in weightlifting, where all the world records are from regions where the genotype is rare.

just curious what events a 40 something fat dude is competing at again?

How many times have you heard “good genetics” thrown around here? That is what you are describing, in a nutshell. World-class athletes hit the genetic lottery in their respective sports 99% of the time. That is most usually the differentiating characteristic between them and every other person that has trained their @ss off their entire life

bluecolla wrote:

How many times have you heard “good genetics” thrown around here? That is what you are describing, in a nutshell. World-class athletes hit the genetic lottery in their respective sports 99% of the time. That is most usually the differentiating characteristic between them and every other person that has trained their @ss off their entire life

Seems to be a little more than that now due to the new myostatin deficiency thing.

It actually appears to be a disease.

I was trying to figure out what it was. Looks like I have the answer now.

Also another great example of this is UK boxer Anthony Joshua. He 100 percent has this disease.

I was trying to determine what it was that was causing Joshuas muscles to be that well developed after a thorough investigation into what he was eating and what type of workout programs he was doing.

It appears that he's simply on an upgraded version of yoga, band workouts, light weight, and speed band workouts, or mediocre weight, and still have what appears to be are 19 inch arms.

HEre is his instagram page.

Seems like he doesn't really have to try to grow muscle. Nothing against Joshua or anything. Just stating some facts here. He still gets an A for effort at working out.

Just drink 3 gallons of green tea a day.

Clearly their records need purged and lifetime bans imposed. Definitely not male, maybe not even human.

matt_london_413 wrote:

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Anthony Joshua. He 100 percent has this disease.

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It appears that he's simply on an upgraded version of yoga, band workouts, light weight, and speed band workouts, or mediocre weight, and still have what appears to be are 19 inch arms.

That's not all he's on, stop kidding yourself. 99% chance your British sprint hero is doping too, and his genotype is a convenient distraction to deflect suspicion.

Bolt was not huge when he first started going fast, they bulked him up. You don't need to lift heavy to bulk up, you should know that if you study bodybuilding. Hypertrophy comes from reps that increase sarcoplasm level.

Consider history's sprint greats. Was Carl Lewis at all hypertrophic? Which myostatin-deficient sprinter was able to beat him? No, it was a heavy anabolic doper who beat him, and years and years of other heavy dopers followed, and they're still doing it. That look you are mooning about didn't exist before steroids, not on the track anyway. In the weight room, yes - but as you say, sprinters don't spend all that much time there.